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Colorado Mountain Home Design is Modern Mountain-Chic!

This cool Colorado mountain home design by Michael P. Johnson features many modern elements that, despite their “cool” factor, really bring a sense of warmth to this luxurious country home. In fact, there are lots of features to warm your heart and your fingertips. Take a seat in the stunning contemporary fireplace room, with rustic wood benches lining the walls beneath the wall-to-wall windows which surround the modern suspended fireplace. Wonderful forest views invite the outdoors in, enhancing the home’s charming mountain chalet feel. This rustic-style house is cool and contemporary inside, with minimalist interiors that focus on simplicity for a relaxing atmosphere. Unadorned with few but meaningful features and furnishings, the rooms draw the eye to that vivid red chair; the custom wood benches, built-ins and staircase; the view! The designer upped the cool factor with the ultra-chic Avantgarde collection of ceramic tiles, by Refin Ceramiche. Easy to maintain, lovely to look at and a pleasure underfoot, the tile is the perfect finishing touch to this mountain cabin home.

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24 Dec 2009 | Mountain Homes | Comments (0)

Mountain Chalet Design in the Andes, Chile

Created by Chilean architecture firm dRN Architects, this stunning mountain chalet design sits 2,000m high in the pristine peace of the Andes Mountains. The rustic house style features a cozy, chalet-chic look which suits its surroundings to a T. Building mountain houses had its set of challenges, explain the architects. “The window of good weather for building at these altitudes is very narrow (six months), so a rapid construction plan was required. We decided to build with a prefabricated steel frame structure that would reduce assembly time. This metal cage was then covered with different layers of insulation responding to specific needs; much like the clothes of a mountain climber.” The steel frame is topped with a layer of plywood, double-thermal insulation, a waterproof membrane, and finally an exterior cladding of black slate. The minimalist stone house features few windows dotting the main structure for a simple facade in keeping with the “rustic cabin homes” theme. “Window openings are minimal and were placed so as to illuminate specific acts, or to frame certain parts of the surrounding landscape, keeping away the sight of the neighbors,” according to the architects. But the amazing surroundings views are not lost in this design, which features a glass-enclosed living area overhanging the rocky terrain, and a glassed-in loft area topping this unusual home which illuminates the outdoors by night. A steel walkway connects this upper glass loft to the road. dRN Architects
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photo credit: Felipe Camus

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6 Dec 2009 | Mountain Homes | Comments (0)

Mountain Cottage Design of Wood and ... Tents

This mountain cottage design by architect Shin Ohori of Japanese architecture firm General Design Co. takes to the hills and goes rustic, rural – downright rough! This unusual cabin design, dubbed “Mountain Research” and located in the mountains at Kawakami-mura, Minamisaku-gun, Nagano, is a combination of sport and style. The odd blend of bright yellow domes – actually, these are a pair of tents by The North Face – and natural wood come together in this contemporary cottage. Individual structures are staggered in multiple levels on the hillside. Inside the simple, low-profile wood frame house, a kitchen, bathroom and storage seem to step back to make way for fantastic outdoor living rooms and patios. Fittingly, this rustic cabin home is made of biodegradable materials – local pine – with the idea that after the cottage has served its purpose it will disintegrate back into the earth. General Design Co.
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25 Sep 2009 | Mountain Homes | Comments (0)

Mountain Retreat For Sale in Coveted Whistler, B.C.

There's something so alluring about a mountain retreat. Gorgeous Whistler, British Columbia is home to Compass Pointe House, designed by Sean Anderson and the Canadian architects at Progressive Concept Design. This custom mountain retreat doesn’t spare any luxuries. Local stone and fir set a warm, welcoming tone for this charming, rustic home with a view of the mountains. Complementing the natural surroundings, interior and exterior finishes are by designer and HGTV host Kelly Deck, who brings her chic, current design to this natural setting. A one-of-a-kind 10-ft. Italian pivot door makes for a grand entrance into this majestic mountain house plan. An adult playground, this luxury retreat comes complete with a wine cellar, a gym, two rooftop patios, a chef’s kitchen, and the piece de resistance, an entertaining patio dressed to impress with a fireplace and a hot tub, and a $6,950,000 price tag. This impressive piece of Canadian architecture is listed for sale with The Whistler Real Estate Company.
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Photos by Kristen McGaughey

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9 Sep 2009 | Mountain Homes | Comments (0)

Mountain House Architecture - cozy mountain retreat integrates into surroundings in New Zealand

From the outside in, this rustic mountain house architecture designed by Fearon Hay Architects makes use of natural materials to complement its spectacular earthy environment. Located between the high peaks overlooking Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand, the floor-to-ceiling windows of this cozy mountain retreat frame these breathtaking vistas, while a rooftop terrace offers a first-hand experience of nature. The building’s facade features a large stone stacked into a simple cube shape. Inside, the sliding glass-enclosed rooms are at one with nature, echoing the environment with raw, rustic materials like wood, stone and concrete. Despite this charming house’s organic appearance, modern comforts are at your fingertips with heated floors, mountain-spring water, natural gas and electricity. Fearon Hay Architects
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photo credit: Patrick Reynolds

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16 Aug 2009 | Mountain Homes | Comments (0)

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